Pick Dify if
product and applied-AI teams who want a visual RAG/agent studio and may later self-host.
Read the Dify pageDify vs RAGFlow
Our take
Pick Dify if product and applied-AI teams who want a visual RAG/agent studio and may later self-host. Pick RAGFlow if teams who will run Docker and already have a chat-model key (the cover uses DeepSeek). Skip Dify if someone who only wants ChatGPT, or an engineer who prefers a code-first graph (LangChain) with no studio. Skip RAGFlow if people who want a ChatGPT-style shell only (Open WebUI) or a hosted Dify card
Best for
Dify Shipping a chatbot or workflow with a knowledge base
RAGFlow Chunk documents and route an agent over them
Free plan
Dify No free plan
RAGFlow $0 · apache-2.0. You bring CPU/GPU, disk, and model keys
Lowest paid
Dify Cloud Team $1/mo
RAGFlow Not published by the vendor
Next step up
Dify Cloud Professional $590/mo
RAGFlow
Coding agent
Dify Agents and apps
RAGFlow Agent canvas
Runs where
Dify Local; you host it
RAGFlow Local or hosted
Watch out
Dify Self-host is not zero ops
RAGFlow $0 is the software, not Tavily or DeepSeek
Last checked
Dify 2026-10-19 · dify.ai/pricing
RAGFlow 2026-10-21 · github.com/infiniflow/ragflow
Which one, then?
Pick RAGFlow if
teams who will run Docker and already have a chat-model key (the cover uses DeepSeek).
Read the RAGFlow page